As written earlier I have worked on a small script that migrated from boastMachine to WordPress. The script was almost finished when I migrated myself but there were some small things that were missing until I could release it.
The script is not complete and there might be some need for some extra hacking on it before it works on every installation. This script features:
Imports: Posts, Categories and Comments
Links posts to categories
Changes the path to earlier uploaded attachments in boastMachine to a new location*
Possibilities to set all old posts to a specific user on the WordPress installation
* The way to do this is to move the attatchment folder from the boastMachine installation to a new location and then alter the two urls in the config part of the script to its appropriate locations.
Hello, I just tried the script and something goes wrong with the comments. Basically, they don’t show up on the main page, and *sometimes* show up when inside an entry. =/
Do you think you could help me ?
[...] I just remembered that I have received a new version of the BoastMachine to WordPress converter. I
Trying this with Php 5.2.8 and apache 2.0.63, result :
Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_array() on a non-object in /www/migrate_to_wordpress.php on line 106
Any idea’s where i could start to debug this?
Hi, it doesn’t work with WordPress 2.8.4.
Be careful, I didn’t notice the TRUNCATE statement which deleted all my existing pages/posts from Wordpress.
Other than that works a treat.
Thanks
Sorry about that Mark. Although this code is no longer maintained I just had to make that optional.